Middle East Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Muslim scholars translated various texts
  2. 4. led to control of E.trade routes
  3. 6. Ottoman leader who conquered Constantinople
  4. 9. study of the eye and diseases of the eye
  5. 11. used by artists to write passages
  6. 12. holy city of the religion of Islam
  7. 14. branch of mathematics
  8. 16. language that spread through M.E.&N.A.
Down
  1. 1. leader should be elected by the community
  2. 3. advances in many fields of study
  3. 5. celestial globes to solve problems
  4. 6. founder of the religion of Islam
  5. 7. holy book of Islam
  6. 8. should be a direct descendant of Muhammad
  7. 10. political&spiritual leader of the Islamic state
  8. 13. Muslim geographers to calculate Earth's size
  9. 15. Muslim who traveled all over Islamic world